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Labour market power and between-firm wage (in)equality

Mertens, Matthias - 2020

This study investigates how labour market power shapes between-firm wage differences using German manufacturing sector data from 1995 to 2016. Over time, firm- and employee-side labour market power, defined as the difference between wages and marginal revenue products of labour (MRPL),...

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Labour market polarisation, job tasks and monopsony power

Bachmann, Ronald; Demir, Gökay; Frings, Hanna - 2020

Using a semi-structural approach based on a dynamic monopsony model, we examine to what extent workers performing … different job tasks are exposed to different degrees of monopsony power, and whether these differences in monopsony power have … degree of monopsony power than workers performing routine or non-routine manual tasks. Job-specific human capital and non …

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Monopsony and local religious clubs : evidence from Indonesia

Brummund, Peter; Makowsky, Michael D. - 2024

difficulty in separating monopsony rents from compensating wage differentials. …

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Policy brief: employer market power in Silicon Valley

Gibson, Matthew - 2021

Adam Smith alleged that secret employer collusion to reduce labor earnings is common. This paper examines an important case of such behavior: no-poach agreements through which technology companies agreed not to compete for each other's workers. Exploiting the plausibly random timing of a US...

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Non-compete agreements in a rigid labour market : the case of Italy

Boeri, Tito; Garnero, Andrea; Luisetto, Lorenzo G. - 2023

Non-compete clauses (NCCs) limiting the mobility of workers have been found to be rather widespread in the US, a flexible labour market with large turnover rates and a limited coverage of collective bargaining. This paper explores the presence of such arrangements in a rigid labour market, with...

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The wage elasticity of recruitment

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Manning, Alan; … - 2022

One of the factors likely to affect the market power of employers is the sensitivity of the flow of recruits to the offered wage, but there is very little research on this. This paper presents a methodology for estimating the wage elasticity of recruitment and applies it to German data. Our...

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The dynamics of power in labor markets : monopolistic unions versus monopsonistic employers

Samuel Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, … - 2022

This paper brings together the modern research on employer power and employee power by empirically examining the effects of unionization on worker earnings, employment, and inequality across differently concentrated markets. Exploiting national tax reforms to union membership dues as exogenous...

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Labor market concentration and competition policy across the Atlantic

Araki, Satoshi; Bassanini, Andrea; Green, Andrew S.; … - 2022

employers' monopsony power. It explores the characteristics of monopsony in labor markets and documents its impact by looking at … solutions to address employers' monopsony power. …

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Labor market concentration and wages : incumbents versus new hires

Bassanini, Andrea; Batut, Cyprien; Caroli, Eve - 2023

We investigate the impact of labor market concentration on average wages and decompose it into its effects on new hires and incumbents, where incumbents are defined as individuals who were already employed in the same firm the year before. Using administrative data for France, we find that...

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Firm training

Black, Dan A.; Skipper, Lars; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2023

Workers acquire skills through formal schooling, through training provided by governments, and through training provided by firms. This chapter reviews, synthesizes, and augments the literature on the last of these, which has languished in recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm...

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